I.1 The Math Working Group Membership

The W3C Math Working Group was co-chaired by Patrick Ion of the
AMS, and Angel Diaz of IBM from June 2001 to May 2002. Presently
Patrick Ion continues as chair. Contact the chair about membership in
the Working Group. For the present membership see the
W3C Math home page.

Members of the Working Group responsible for MathML 2.0, second
edition are:

Earlier active members of this second W3C Math Working Group have
included:

Sam Dooley, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights NY, USA

Robert Sutor, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights NY, USA

Barry MacKichan, MacKichan Software, Las Cruces NM, USA

The W3C Math Working Group has been co-chaired by Patrick Ion
of the AMS, and Angel Diaz of IBM from July 1998 to December 2000.
Contact the co-chairs if you are
interested in joining the group. For the present membership see the
W3C Math home page.

Earlier active members of this second W3C Math Working Group have
included:

Sam Dooley, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights NY, USA

Robert Sutor, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights NY, USA

Barry MacKichan, MacKichan Software, Las Cruces NM, USA

At the time of release of MathML 1.0 the Math Working Group was
co-chaired by Patrick Ion and Robert Miner, then of the Geometry
Center. Since that time several changes in membership have
taken place. In the course of the update to MathML 1.01, in
addition to people listed in the original membership below,
corrections were offered by David Carlisle, Don Gignac,
Kostya Serebriany, Ben Hinkle, Sebastian Rahtz, Sam Dooley and
others.

Members of the Math Working Group responsible for the finished
MathML 1.0 specification were:

Robert Miner, Geometry Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
MN, USA

Nico Poppelier, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, NL

Dave Raggett, W3C (Hewlett Packard), Bristol, UK

T.V. Raman, Adobe Inc., Mountain View CA, USA

Bruce Smith, Wolfram Research Inc., Champaign IL, USA

Neil Soiffer, Wolfram Research Inc., Champaign IL, USA

Robert Sutor, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights NY, USA

Paul Topping, Design Science Inc., Long Beach CA, USA

Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, London ON, CAN

Ralph Youngen, American Mathematical Society, Providence RI, USA

Others who had been members of the W3C Math WG for periods at
earlier stages were:

Stephen Glim, Mathsoft Inc., Cambridge MA, USA

Arnaud Le Hors, W3C, Cambridge MA, USA

Ron Whitney, Texterity Inc., Boston MA, USA

Lauren Wood, SoftQuad, Surrey BC, CAN

Ka-Ping Yee, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON, CAN

I.2 Acknowledgments

The Working Group benefited from the help of many other
people in developing the specification for MathML 1.0. We
would like to particularly name Barbara Beeton, Chris Hamlin,
John Jenkins, Ira Polans, Arthur Smith, Robby Villegas and Joe
Yurvati for help and information in assembling the character
tables in 6 Characters, Entities and Fonts, as well as Peter Flynn,
Russell S.S. O'Connor, Andreas Strotmann, and other
contributors to the www-math mailing list for their careful
proofreading and constructive criticisms.

As the Math Working Group went on to MathML 2.0, it again was
helped by many from the W3C family of Working Groups with whom
we necessarily had a great deal of interaction. Outside the
W3C, a particularly active relevant front was the interface
with the Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) and the NTSC WG2
dealing with ISO 10646. There the STIX project put together a
proposal for the addition of characters for mathematical
notation to Unicode, and this work was again spear-headed by
Barbara Beeton of the AMS. The whole problem ended split into
three proposals, two of which were advanced by Murray Sargent
of Microsoft, a Math WG member and member of the UTC. But the
mathematical community should be grateful for essential help
and guidance over a couple of years of refinement of the
proposals to help mathematics provided by Kenneth Whistler of
Sybase, and a UTC and WG2 member, and by Asmus Freytag, also
involved in the UTC and WG2 deliberations, and always a stalwart
and knowledgeable supporter of the needs of scientific notation.